We have faced many ethical debates on various issues during the past few decades. People shared different opinions following multiple events and ethical debate are raise. People of the United States are once again separated by their opinions on the new biggest issue within their borders. In fact, following the ridiculous number of gun-related crimes that happened everyday and following the multiple mass shooting that still happened occasionally, the population is now sharing different opinions on the issue of gun control. The debate is currently separating the population on how they perceive the second amendment, which was founded in 1791 by the founding fathers to give the population the right to keep and bear arms. The opinions are divided
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Thereupon, he would question himself on how much pain and pleasure the decision of bringing more gun control laws would bring to the society. For Bentham, any morally right actions are being derived from pain and pleasure with the central idea that each person is individually governed by their own pain and pleasure. When it comes to the issue of gun control, pain and pleasure can be found in both sides of gun control arguments. Which means that people in favor of a stricter control of guns will argue that pain can be found in situations where weapons are wrongly used to commit crimes or even mass shootings, but also in a situation where it causes accidental death, for example a child who use his poorly stored father’s gun as a toy and kill his little sister. On the other side, people against gun control argue that pain can also be found if the victims cannot defend themselves properly because they weren’t properly armed. Pleasure could be found by people who are in favor of gun control by making sure they are not at risk of being attack or kill by guns if the criminals don’t have access to these deadly instruments. For the second amendment defenders, pleasure is found by having access to guns, because it provides them a feeling of security knowing that they can protect
Thereupon, he would question himself on how much pain and pleasure the decision of bringing more gun control laws would bring to the society. For Bentham, any morally right actions are being derived from pain and pleasure with the central idea that each person is individually governed by their own pain and pleasure. When it comes to the issue of gun control, pain and pleasure can be found in both sides of gun control arguments. Which means that people in favor of a stricter control of guns will argue that pain can be found in situations where weapons are wrongly used to commit crimes or even mass shootings, but also in a situation where it causes accidental death, for example a child who use his poorly stored father’s gun as a toy and kill his little sister. On the other side, people against gun control argue that pain can also be found if the victims cannot defend themselves properly because they weren’t properly armed. Pleasure could be found by people who are in favor of gun control by making sure they are not at risk of being attack or kill by guns if the criminals don’t have access to these deadly instruments. For the second amendment defenders, pleasure is found by having access to guns, because it provides them a feeling of security knowing that they can protect